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william kent said:
They've done another interview too:

Since the release of your debut album Incunabula in 1993, you've consistently released new albums every 2-3 years, which is impressive. However, your last two records, SIGN and PLUS, came out in 2020. Have you been working in the studio lately, and are there any plans to release new material soon?
Sean: I'm honestly not that interested in records anymore. The concept of what a studio album is seems outdated. For instance, if I create a track on my laptop while on a train, does that qualify as a studio album? No one would know it was made there. If I use my laptop on stage, does that still count as a studio record? It’s different because there’s an audience. But if I’m in the studio with friends while making a hip-hop album, is that an audience too? These terms become confusing.
Rob: The downside is that you often have to promote an album for a year before its release. Our approach is to perform on stage, record the sessions, and then release those recordings. We just get a mastering engineer if we release something on vinyl.

Does it mean you won't be working on a new release?
Sean: These live shows are everything.
Rob: We've been doing this since 2022, calling it 2022 dash. We could keep it going for another ten years. Traveling and meeting people is something you can’t replicate in a studio.
Sean: Why would you think our live material is worse than studio recordings? My focus is on performing and sharing those experiences. We selected our best sets to release, and after our previous record deal ended, we renegotiated with the label earlier this year. We’ll release about 4-5 hours of new material, not just one album.

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Autechre | English | Metal Magazine

We sit down with Autechre to revisit their career beginnings and enduring collaboration with the likes of Warp Records, The Designers Republic, and Chris Cunningham.
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yyaldrin said:
it's so strange they are a duo. it's what you'd least expect hearing the music no?
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It makes you wonder which bits would turn up in their solo stuff. Like when David Sylvian and Mick Karn made solo records and you could hear the constituent parts of Japan, like they had been surgically separated and preserved.
 
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craner said:
It makes you wonder which bits would turn up in their solo stuff. Like when David Sylvian and Mick Karn made solo records and you could hear the constituent parts of Japan, like they had been surgically separated and preserved.
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Some of the Autechre stuff is solo stuff. They were asked about it during their AAA on WATMM and Sean said:

"yeah tons of our tracks are solo tracks, usually trying to one up each other about 1/3 of it is non-solo, as a really approximate guess"​
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yyaldrin said:
it's so strange they are a duo. it's what you'd least expect hearing the music no?
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I really don't mean or want to contradict you, but no.
although thinking about it, it does seem electronic production duos and trios are less common than they were a couple of decades ago
 
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I'm sure I remember an interview or Q&A where they said Sean is more beats and rhythm, Rob is more synths and melody.
 
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They consider 'the system' essentially the third member of the band these days and it sounds like both of them.
 
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What’s it like to make music together when you live in different cities?

SB: When you’re working with this type of stuff, it actually makes more sense to be working independently. I mean, two guys sharing a computer doesn’t really work. But two guys swapping patches works really well. After Quaristice [from 2008], we realized that if we’re not sat in the same room jamming the tracks out live with each other, then there’s really not much point in us being in the same room at all. In some ways it’s more interesting.

RB: We impersonate each other. When we were younger, all the gear would be in one of our houses. We were still living with our parents, possibly, at this point. But once we started doing gigs abroad and one thing would break, we’d buy another one. And in the end we had mirrored studios in each of our houses. It got to the point where I’d try and imagine what Sean would put on my unfinished track, and do it for him and see what he thought, and it would work both ways. I guess it’s a continuation of that.

SB: We’ve never had specific roles in the band. It’s not like one of us is a bass player. We both have always done tracks on our own. All the albums, I don’t know what the proportion is exactly, but there are more solo tracks than there are tracks that we both worked on at the same time.

pitchfork.com

Autechre on Their Epic NTS Sessions, David Lynch, and Where Code Meets Music

Getting in the middle of the mind-meld between Sean Booth and Rob Brown, as the IDM masters’ four-part radio sessions see a proper release
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